Finance

Kane County Sheriff Don Kramer appeared before the county's Judicial and Public Safety committee Thursday with good news about a tentative collective bargaining agreement with correctional officers and bad news about an additional $800,000 in revenues that he expects to be short on his budget. "We have been holding line items down in every way we possibly can so we have extra revenue at the end of the year to cover the Marshal's shortfall," Kramer said. His public safety and corrections budgets are actually in the black in terms of expenditures, but revenues — particularly fees for evictions stemming from foreclosures — are down and may lead the department...

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